Canyon Moon SATB
An arrangement for intermediate unaccompanied mixed choirs of Harry Styles’ ‘Canyon Moon’ from his 2019 album 'Fine Line'. Score includes piano reduction for rehearsal.
Words and music by Harry Styles, Mitch Rowland and Thomas Hull, Arranged by Kirsten Duncan.
An arrangement for intermediate unaccompanied mixed choirs of Harry Styles’ ‘Canyon Moon’ from his 2019 album 'Fine Line'. Score includes piano reduction for rehearsal.
Words and music by Harry Styles, Mitch Rowland and Thomas Hull, Arranged by Kirsten Duncan.
An arrangement for intermediate unaccompanied mixed choirs of Harry Styles’ ‘Canyon Moon’ from his 2019 album 'Fine Line'. Score includes piano reduction for rehearsal.
Words and music by Harry Styles, Mitch Rowland and Thomas Hull, Arranged by Kirsten Duncan.
Voicing: SATB, a cappella
Item: 2025.01
ISMN: 9790900969958
Duration: 3:00 min
PDF file: 12 pages to print at size A4, includes front cover, information about the work and composer, music pages, back cover
Composer’s note
‘Canyon Moon’ is a bittersweet song about a man who travels often and clings fondly to memories of a time under the canyon moon to carry him through homesickness. The melancholy is balanced by the joyous anticipation of going home. The titular canyon and the musical style are references to Laurel Canyon in Southern California, near where Styles lived while writing the album, and the hippie soft-rock musicians who worked there in the 1960s and 70s.
Why choose this arrangement? It is composed for intermediate mixed adult choirs (SATB) without any accompaniment. The voices alternate between jaunty instrumental ba dup bridges and layered harmonies through verses and choruses, building to the nostalgic climax of going home, and lightened with some cheerful whistling and toe-tapping.
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